The day book. (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, March 23, 1917, LAST EDITION, Image 5

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MISS HALEY CRITICISES PLAYOF SHANNON AND LARSENTwo of the school board's $10,000-a-yearmen are in Springfield lobbying for changes in the teachers' pension fund law. The action they areasking legislators to take has notbeen passed on by the school board.They are lobbying for personal"reasons or unknown special interests. They have, no instructionsfrom the school board to officially dowhat they are doing. The two menare Angus Roy Shannon, att'y forthe board, and Lewis E. Larsen, secretary. ; This is the gist of criticism madeby Margaret Haley, business representative Teachers' Federation. Thechanges asked by Shannon and Larsen would increase the schoolboard's representatives on the teachers! pension board from three members to six while the teachers' representatives would be decreased fromsix to three. The latter are electedby the balloting of the 8,000 publicschool teachers.Shannon and Larsen make noclaim that pension matters are runinefficiently. All they insist on isthat control of teachers' pensions,with a reserve fund close to $2,000,000, be taken away from the teachers and put in the hands of theschool board.Ralph C. Otis and Charles- Peterson, school board members, told Chicago Real Estate Board yesterdaythat the city council should bestripped of power over school lands.Otis urged the sale of 280 acres ofschool land in Austin, 640 acres atClearing, 60 acres in the 33d ward,40 acres on Stony Island av. andother land at Clearing would bring800 cash per acre, it is estimated. Itrents now for $4 an acre.Max Loeb, school board member,believes there is to be a big industrial development at Clearing andthie city should keep a tight grip onthe 640 acres. The Armour Belt Lineand other interests want the Clearingland and want it bad. Alfred Urion,chief counsel forArmour & Co., iskeeping the wires and mails busytrying to line up the legislature forthe Baldwin bill abolishing city council control and empowering theschool board to sell land.Urion's actions as lobbyist are under the guise of a director of the Chicago Public School "league." Thatbe is an Armour attorney and thatan Armour railroad wants schoolland are points Urion has beenmousey about In these particularsthe password is "Hush."o oU. S. GRANTS RECOGNITION TOITS NEW SISTER REPUBLICWashington, March 23. UnitedStates is first nation to accord newRussian government full and formalrecognition. This was done yesterday when Ambassador Francis, under instructions from Washington,appeared before Foreign Minister Milukoff and later before the council ofministers and assured the new democracy of America's good will.o oT. R. WOULD HEAD ARMYNew York, March 23. The American army, 500,000 strong, fighting inthe trenches of France and led byCoL Roosevelt, is the answer 15,000persons who packed Madison SquareGarden would give to Germany.Though the colonel was not at thegarden last night, he sent a letterwhich precipitated a near-riot of enthusiasm when it was read.o o ,BURGLARS MAKE CLEAN-UPBurglars who worked . with autoand most up-to-date instruments oftheir profession got away with abouta thousand dollars' worth of clothingwhen they broke into store of LewisWeil, 1348 Lincoln av., this morning,o oWANT 27TH WARD WORKERSWanted: 100 workers for 27thward on election day. Address EmilKuhne, 4126 N. Richmond av. PhoneMonticello 744